Telltale's complete run of Walking Dead story-o-adventures is now available bundled up The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series, with a few bonus bits and pieces too. That's 23 episodes across four seasons, a miniseries, and one interstitial, stuffed into one digital bag with a load concept art, a music player, and the option to play the whole series with the comic book-y "graphic black" art style introduced late in the run. With no upgrade discount for owning any of the originals, The Definitive Series is probably more for newcomers and completionists - but maybe you're one of those?
]]>The sad saga of Telltale's fall is due one last tragic chapter. GOG have just announced that all of the defunct choose-your-own-adventure studio's games will be de-listed next Monday, May 27th at 11am BST. That includes Telltale's own games like Puzzle Agent, and all three seasons of Sam & Max adventures, as well as licensed games like The Wolf Among Us, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Batman, and the excellent Tales From The Borderlands. The last of which has already been removed from Steam, though publisher 2K Games are working to bring it (and it alone) back, as reported by Eurogamer.
]]>Update: Telltale have officially confirmed the bad news that they've closed most the studio and only 25 employees remain.
As reported by Gamasutra, it seems that prolific choose-your-own-adventure studio Telltale Games is shutting down. This is backed up by media posts from developers at and close to the studio, such as Outerloop's Chandana Ekanayake.
The Verge report that a skeleton crew of around 25 will remain at the studio, down from around 250. A source tells USGamer the upcoming The Wolf Among Us 2 and a Stranger Things adventure series have been cancelled. Telltale Games have released no official statement yet.
]]>Veteran The Walking Dead storyman Gary Whitta will return to the episodic zombie apocalypse story 'em up for its fourth and final season, Telltale Games announced today. Whitta was story consultant on the first season and wrote its fourth episode, as well as contributing to add-on episode 400 Days, but hasn't been involved with it for years. The series has declined over the years so hopefully he might help reverse this.
Telltale have also announced they're working on prettied-up versions of their earlier Walking Dead games for a big console collection, though they haven't confirmed if those will come to PC too. (Update: doesn't look like it.)
]]>Oh boy, have we got sales news for you, vast gaping maw of collective consumerism. Isn’t it a beautiful day for buying things? The Humbler Bundlers have put together a bunch of Telltale’s better games for $15. Yes, everyone has probably already got their critically acclaimed zombies ‘n’ conversation games based on the Walking Dead. But has everybody got Batman? Has everybody got Game of Thrones? Has everybody got…
*squints at notes*
“Bone: The Great Cow Race”?
]]>The Walking Dead: Michonne [official site], a miniseries in Telltale's episodic choose-your-own-disaster line, wraps up today with the release of its third episode. This closes a gap in the comic book story, a point where Michonne had vanished off for a few issues. And Telltale will be dipping into the comic book world a bit more, according to comic creator Robert Kirkman. He's opened up a wee bit about Season Three of Telltale's The Walking Dead, which is due this year, and will once again visit Clementine.
]]>Having never read the comic book series, I mostly know The Walking Dead's Michonne as the samurai sword-wielding walker-whacker that's played by Danai Gurira in the television series. Courtesy of Telltale's point-and-click spin-off, though, I now also know her as the equally bad ass serial choice maker-er who's about to embark on her third and final miniseries episode. Named "What We Deserve", the last outing of The Walking Dead: Michonne [official site] will launch on April 26.
]]>As first hinted back in 2014, there's definitely going to be a Season 3 of Telltale's The Walking Dead - because The Walking Dead in all its forms is a story specifically designed to never, ever end. Telltale promise that the endings of Season 2 will be respected, and claim what they're doing is "not from the bag of tricks that that we've ever shown anybody before."
]]>The Walking Dead: Michonne [official site] Episode 2, called "Give No Shelter," is coming out on March 29th. To announce the release, Telltale have done something slightly different than the usual trailer, something quite cool and also quite creepy. They've published one of those recaps that remind you of the choices you made in past episodes, basing it on what the majority of players decided to do.
It's a bit like "Twitch plays", except these are the decisions of our collective hivemind.
]]>Michonne's in In Too Deep, and she's trying to keep Up above in her head instead of going under. Cause she's in In Too Deep, and she's trying to keep Up above in her head instead of going under. Instead of going under.
Sometimes I secretly delight in writing horrendous posts, but I want you to know this one is intentional. If I'm having that song stuck in my head all day, you are too. Here's a refresher. But the video following below is definitely a trailer celebrating the first episode of The Walking Dead: Michonne [official site] - named 'In Too Deep' - coming out today. It really is. Even I wouldn't dunk Sum 41 on you again.
]]>I've only a passing familiarity with Michonne from seeing a bit of the Walking Dead TV show, where she is one of the few competent characters, but I broadly understand she is, as the kids say, 'pretty dang cool'. Cool enough to get her own spin-off game and be voiced by Orange Is the New Black's Poussey, certainly.
The Walking Dead: Michonne [official site] will begin on Tuesday, February 23rd, Telltale announced today. All three episodes will run you $15 together.
]]>Now that Telltale have wrapped up the first series of Tales From the Borderlands and Game of Thrones, it's time to show a little more of what's coming next. Last night they announced a Batman series, but also showed off something sooner. A wee trailer for The Walking Dead: Michonne [official site] shows that the three-episode miniseries, which fills in the story during a gap in the comics, will start in February 2016. Oh, and Michonne won't be voiced by her TV actor, but is having words put in her mouth by the excellent Samira Wiley - Poussey from Orange Is the New Black.
]]>Telltale Games have announced a new three-part The Walking Dead miniseries, starting this autumn. The Walking Dead: Michonne, as the name suggests, focuses on Michonne, one of the longest surviving characters in the comics. Across the three episodes, you'll explore her whereabouts and actions between issues 126 -139 of the comics.
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